tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post3702722154911452893..comments2023-05-25T03:08:18.166-06:00Comments on Montana Headlines: Lucky conservative: musings on Kingsley AmisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post-25179970288145007452007-05-15T11:26:00.000-06:002007-05-15T11:26:00.000-06:00What a great story!The really fun thing to do with...What a great story!<BR/><BR/>The really fun thing to do with Conquest's first principle is to turn it on its head. <BR/><BR/>If someone isn't a bit reactionary, should this raise the suspicion that maybe they don't really know as much about the matter in question as they claim?Montana Headlineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149094528547382638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post-32485158410094989702007-05-14T22:55:00.000-06:002007-05-14T22:55:00.000-06:00I read your comments about Amis this morning (Mond...I read your comments about Amis this morning (Monday) and was struck by Conquest's quote,"Generally speaking, everybody is reactionary on subjects he knows about."<BR/><BR/>It was one of those statements that seems to be so accurate that one mistrusts it. I tried to think of exceptions all day, without much luck, and then this evening I was reading a great article in the May 14 New Yorker about a master luthier who has been building guitars that veer away from the popular forms.<BR/><BR/>It confounded him that no one would accept his revolutionary designs. He was quoted as saying, "This is rock and roll! You would think that guitar players would be open and experimental. And they are not. That guy with the purple Mohawk? He won't play anything made after 1960."<BR/><BR/>Robert Conquest, touche.Ed Kemmickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727902998201800981noreply@blogger.com